Monday, March 05, 2012

IAF Mirage Crashes, 2nd in 2 Weeks

Photo: Aerospace Safety Magazine

An IAF Mirage 2000TH trainer crashed about 60-km South-East of Jaipur in Western India today. This is the second Mirage to go down since another Mirage 2000TH crashed in Bhind, MP on Feb 24. The pilots in today's crash -- Squadron Leader Raj and Flight Lieutenant Kanav ejected safely. The IAF Mirage fleet won't fly for the next few days as routine procedures are conducted to check them out.

calm down people, just becasue a couple of crashes happened in a short time doesn't mean you blame everything under the sun. The Mirage has a very good record even with the 2 crashed over its service life with the IAF. May not see a another crash for several years.

I believe this should be a cause for serious concern to the IAF and Indian public. The Air Chief Marshall and the Defense Ministry owe us some serious explanation, they shouln't be allowed to get off the hook with their customary nonsense they hav been dishing out with the 21 crashes. The Mirage 2000 are India's most expensive and premier fighters. The IAF/HAL needs to do some serious soul searching for their poor quality and pitiful maintainance standards. And if it is pilot error then that too is absolutely unaccaptable. The IAF needs to get their collective heads out of their rear and gets their act together before they waste more lives and taxpayer's money.

A fighter is sure good until its design life runs out assuming there is sufficient design margins built in. Just as with cars, they say your mileage will vary. May be all those Himalayan speed bumps starts to take its tolls.

I never understood the logic of selecting the Rafale. India already has plenty of SU-30. Want a multi role fighter bomber, get a SU-34. It is only $50M, dirt cheap next to Rafale, with a much bigger payload and range. Besides, save on maintenance. SU-34 that would be my 1st choice.

-- Developed nations are ruled by underground agencies like illuminati which dictate what they do in real world and how they enslave populations

-- they have secret space based and other atmospheric platforms that can elementarily or electronically or mechanically intercept any type of machine using today's technology, although i don't have any concrete proof, i just feel they may be using it, esp britain, to bring down dassauly products. it will just seem like mirages now are as junk as migs.

-- what i have seen with my eyes is a real air/space craft with amazing speed and strangeness, it was a cloudy sky, it was appearing like a flying black polybag from far, when it approached it was standing at a single point rotating on all direction, seemed like a square shape and radiating heat (you could see the heat radiation distortion) when we began pointing fingers, it just rapidly accelerated into nothingness, going in opposite direction and becoming invisible as it had gone too far.

now you will find this as an interesting story, but me and my frnd dont share it fearing we will be called idiots, but we both know how true it was, we feel it was a secret tech controlled by these people. this was above udyog vihar, maruti plant in year 2002, too surprised and too less time to get a camera to click :-(

If such mishaps happen every now and then how many mirage 2000s would remain in service by the time upgrades are over.even a mig 29 has crashed late last year.they should accelerate the LCA mark2 by signing the contract with general electric for 99 engines ASAP.